Right about now I bet the Old Media is longing for the days where it didn’t have to engage in a public dialogue and simply told us how things were.
Watching the boys at Powerline reminds me of a young prize fighter taking on an old man who should have left the boxing ring years ago.
The new Townhall.com is up and running. The conglomerate of conservative radio hosts, columnists and bloggers offers up a one-stop location for all your conservative intellectual needs. Impressive indeed.
The conservative superblog has arrived.
This is IMDb‘s Quote of the Day, from the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Imagine Jimmy Stewart’s voice as you read this…
JEFFERSON SMITH
You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more.
Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I’m free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn’t, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that.
Happy Independence Day Everyone!
Letssaythanks.com, this is a website by Xerox where you can choose from many postcard designs (by children)
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personalize the card and it will be printed and sent to a soldier, sailor, airman or marine serving overseas (anywhere overseas, not just war zones).
This is really cool.
Yeah! See the “first post” here.
UPDATE!
Rusty has written a post here too.
After nearly two weeks of fighting a cyberterrorist attack launched by
Turkish Islamists, and then wrestling with a new server, The Jawa
Report is back!We promise to continue the reporting the news the only way we know
how–with mediocre analysis & plenty of offense. If that’s just a
little bit more than Islam can allow, then to quote Kos, screw them.
Read the rest!
So the NYT has taken on the role of deciders-in-chief, regarding what is truly in America’s national interest. And their decision: it is more important that Americans know the details of an anti-terrorism program (one that breaks no laws whatsoever) than it is to keep the details from the terrorists, who will surely exploit their newfound intelligence.
Of course, as we’ve seen time and time again, the “right to know” is premised on the right to know what the Times wants you to know about, and what they want you to know about is how much of a failure the Bush administration has been.
So while the NYT’s stated justification for jeopardizing our security is America’s right to know, the underlying reason is their right to attack the Bush administration. As the Times appears to see it, sacrificing the security of every man, woman, and child in America is necessary collateral damage in their war against Bush. How ironic this is, given that the collateral damage caused by U.S. forces has become a regular focal point in the media’s anti-Bush coverage.
Hang Right Politics is dedicating a page to remarks made by Democrats in defense of the Cut and Run, Cut and Jog, Cut and Powerwalk, and/or Cut and Stroll positions.
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UPDATED
The New York Times runs a front page story on bank data being used to help find terrorists. This is published in the print edition this morning and online last night.
Last night, the Attorney General announced indictments against 7 suspected terrorists in Miami who are thought to have been planning attacks on both the FBI’s Miami offices and the Sears Tower, America’s tallest building, in Chicago.
The conspiracy theory? They were sitting on the story, waiting for something that could be construed as favorable to the administration, so they could publish this as counter-point.
At the press conference today with Tony Snow (transcript will be and video are available here later), the questions were all about the banking leak, nothing about the Miami 7.
Someone Bob Sellers* on Fox News noted that the bank story was front page in the Gray Lady, but the Miami 7 story was buried somewhere in the 20s.
(*thanks to Kim Preistap @ Wizbang who also noted this)
Shows you where their priorities lay doesn’t it?
UPDATE! Kim Priestap has a good roundup on the banking story here.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
– Clarence Thomas
He’s 58 years old today. Still young.
I was reading one of my daily reads, The Capitol Fax Blog (Illinois politics from Springfield) and Rich had mentioned this Sun Times article about a poll of “500 registered voters” who think it’s better to make Wal-Mart and other “big-box” retailers pay out the nose for unskilled labor even if it keeps badly needed jobs out of the area. One of the poll suggestions, that respondents heartily agreed with, was that employees should be guaranteed $10 an hour plus $3 an hour in benefits for 5 hours a week.
I emailed the story to DJ Drummond, telling him that this poll seemed so “rotten you can smell it from Denmark”. He agreed with me and fisks it marvelously here at Stolen Thunder and here at Wizbang! Politics. Go read it.
Rich, thanks for bringing this up. Go read the comments at Captiol Fax Blog on this issue – there are so many Wal-Mart haters out there…
